I found myself in a funny email exchange with our music director, Patrick Gagnon, this week. I had suggested an opening hymn for this Sunday, and I wanted Patrick’s thoughts on it. The hymn is “O Day of Peace That Dimly Shines” (UM Hymnal # 729); the words are...
In the middle of weighty decisions we’ve made as a church in recent weeks, and big celebrations and baptisms and All Saints Day that have consumed lots of energy, I’m proud of the way this church showed up for trick or treat last Friday. I don’t mean the trick or...
As promised, we wanted to share the results of our two big church meetings that happened earlier this month, and some of the next steps. Church Conference, October 21. About 100 of us gathered in the sanctuary and on Zoom that evening to vote on the property matters...
I listened this morning as a father spoke of his three young sons, 3, 4 and 7, all lost to a bomb that fell last winter on their home in Gaza. The family had returned to that home after a ceasefire that did not hold. Returning again to rubble during the current...
We’re the church every day, every week as we gather. But there are times in the life of any congregation in which we more intensely have that experience of being the church, together. That happened at Collegiate/Wesley this week. We gathered on Tuesday evening for a...
